Sentences with phrase «young ice»

Due to prevalence of young ice in the strait, it is expected that movement of ice from the Lincoln Sea in the North through the strait will begin some time early in July.

They report larger variations in measured CO2 with per - cm vertical distance in younger ice earlier in an ice core clathrate zone, and smaller variations in older ice at deeper core, consistent with increasing homogeneity with time.

The 2008 observations reinforce our contention that the record minimum of 2007 was less just the damage left by a perfect storm of unusual winds, but more the result of a gradual erosion of the mean sea ice thickness over the past 20 years and the increasing abundance of thin young ice at the beginning of the melt season.

Arctic sea ice is melting faster during summer because it's mostly young ice now, but it has been older in the past and I believe it may accumulate in the future.

And the 76 Alaskan Inupiat terms for ice include nunagvaq, which refers to brown ice coated in walrus residue, and aluksraq, or «young ice punched by seals forming a seal blowhole.»

Terje had Even and Knut (the two young ice extractors on the lake with me) scouting around various lakes that are up to 3 hours drive time away from Geilo (where the ice festival is staged) in the weeks leading up to the festival.

Another possibility, says Dick van der Wateren of the Free University, Amsterdam, is that the layer of volcanic ash dated by Sugden's team slid over younger ice.

Rieke's plans for JWST investigations include imaging nearby debris disks deeply enough to detect young ice giant planets to understand how they sculpt debris disks, and obtaining multiple epoch infrared spectra of variable disks.

Younger ice tends to be thinner and more brittle, making it easier to break up each melt season.

In comparison, young ice used to be about half of all Arctic ice pack in 1985.

Warming air and water has eroded away much of the Arctic's oldest ice, leaving behind brittle young ice that melts faster.

only new and young ice moves southward, because an ice barrier forms in the north that blocks all entry of Arctic ice into Nares Strait; and 3.

As the ice then moves away from the shore, it breaks and is pushed around by wind, eventually forming thicker ridges of ice — a sort of reef — that protects the constantly forming younger ice from being eroded by wind and waves.

Maybe the amount of young ice increases in response to the newly open water and resultant rapid cooling in the upper layers over winter, but eventually gets overwhelmed by the positive feedbacks?

«I wonder whether over all the trend towards thinner younger ice may have resulted in a net underestimation rather than overestimation of the area of multiyear ice.

Scientists have explained Sputnik Planitia's youthful appearance by positing that it is an ancient impact basin — a giant crater filled with thick floes of younger ice that, driven by heat seeping up from below, churn and refresh the surface.

Researchers also found that the young ice sheet was much wetter than it is today, with meltwater from the surface flowing into a network of channels beneath the ice.

But we have a new normal in the sea ice cover — a normal that has less ice, thinner ice, younger ice.

At these faults, some parts of the ice slide under or over others, so scientists can't assume that the youngest ice is toward the top of the glacier.

With Freya's ability to freeze any enemy, the young ice queen has spent decades in a remote wintry palace raising a legion of

With Freya's ability to freeze any enemy, the young ice queen has spent decades in a remote wintry palace raising a legion of deadly huntsmen — including Eric (Chris Hemsworth) and warrior Sara (Jessica Chastain)-- only to find that her prized two defied her one demand: Forever harden your hearts to love.

: This origin tale about hip - hop's most controversial super-group features some intriguingly all - in - the - family casting: To find a stand - in for the young Ice Cube, the filmmakers went with O'Shea Jackson, who happens to be a genetic descendant of the genuine article.

It starts with a young Ice Cube (played by his doppelganger son O'Shea Jackson) and Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins, another dead - ringer) dropping hard beats and rhymes on a small club crowd who'd never heard anything realer.

Radar images show a melange of last year's floes and young ice.

The salt content distinguishes the two types of ice: Younger ice, formed from recently frozen ocean water, is saltier than the multi-year type, which loses its salts over time.

Typically the thicker, older ice survives through the summer melt season (hence, it's called multi-year ice), while the younger ice that forms over the winter melts as quickly as it formed.